1 If only you would split open the heavens and come down!The mountains would quake at your presence.
2 Be like the fire that kindles brushwood and makes water boil.Come down to make your name known to your enemies.The nations will tremble in your presence.
3 When you did awe-inspiring things that we didn’t expect,you came down and the mountains quaked in your presence.
4 No one has ever heard,no one has paid attention,and no one has seen any god except you.You help those who wait for you.
5 You greeted the one who gladly does right and remembers your ways.You showed your anger, because we’ve sinned.We’ve continued to sin for a long time.Can we still be saved?
6 We’ve all become unclean,and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags.All of us shrivel like leaves,and our sins carry us away like the wind.
7 No one calls on your nameor tries to hold on to you.You have hidden your face from us.You have let us be ruined by our sins.